Turning on the Power of Expression

Somewhere within our behavior is the source of our suffering. It's not a mystery or anything like that. It's just the cumulative effects caused by years of victimization. As many of us know by now, our behavior is always consistent with our beliefs. And when we are accustomed to using victim beliefs, it's difficult to recognize our consequential behavior as being out of character with our goals to achieve enlightenment.

On this journey, as we experience more obstacles in our desires to achieve enlightenment, we find ourselves fighting to maintain our lifelong beliefs of powerlessness. We continuously believe certain things about ourselves such as powerlessness while we perceive others as our oppressors. This is the process we use to take the actions that lead us deeper into the depths of victimization. We think, we act, then we judge.

Nevertheless, in most instances, we are basically satisfied with living as victims. We fail to perceive ourselves living beyond our neighborhoods. The thought of global connections are not for us. We are too preoccupied with learning how to become successful in our own small, isolated world void of all power, except for the illusions seen and felt only by victims. This is the environment where we express who the world has defined us to be.

Similarly, in our search for power from the victim beliefs we acquired in this world, we have come to believe and accept certain things about ourselves. We believe we look a certain way, which makes us appeal to others or causes us to devalue ourselves because of skin color, size, class, intelligence, status, wealth, and so on. We also cling to wishful beliefs that we are kind, caring people. There are few of us who have dug deep enough into our victimization to accept that our actions are inconsistent with kindness, caring or compassion.

Regardless to the number of times we hurt ourselves with harmful actions, we remain steadfast in our beliefs that we are blameless for our expressions. And even when our behavior is unquestionably harmful to others, we rationalize that it's not our fault but the other person's fault.  In the main, it's difficult for us to acknowledge the victim behavior we are expressing in our daily actions.

Meanwhile, after our expressions overwhelm us into a morass of moral, emotional, and spiritual servitude, we increase our efforts to place blame on others. From this perspective, we perceive life as us against them. This makes it easier for us to live with ourselves and not face the seemingly daunting work of changing our actions.

Unfortunately, most of us who come face to face with our victimized behavior cannot accept that we cannot accept the challenge to begin working on the countless beliefs creating all the problems in our lives. So, for now, we believe it's easier to remain as victims  and blame our dysfunctional behavior on others.

 Similarly, as victims of our own beliefs, we are constantly struggling to achieve things to make us feel whole, satisfied. As we acquire more things, and our beliefs about these things grow stronger, we become transformed victims. We begin to imagine that our newly acquired victim beliefs will transform us from victims into enlightened sages. Needless to say, this behavior only confirms our victimization.

Nevertheless, the expression of victim beliefs is the source of our suffering. The more beliefs we acquire the more intense our suffering. And the more we suffer, the more we work to acquire new beliefs to liberate us from our suffering. This circular spoke of action is nothing more than confirming we are victims. In other words, we believe we are victims and we are victims,

The source of victimization is our belief system. We believe we are victims and we are victims. We have forgotten how to use our power to believe something else about ourselves. For example, that we are not victims of our behavior, but the creators of it. And as creators, we have the power to change whatever we create in our lives.

Whenever we become victimized by our behavior, we must first look at ourselves before we seek help from others. We must understand something about the person acting in this unacceptable manner. To do this, we must understand that we are the creator using our power to create limitless expressions in our lives. And while it might seem to us that someone else is actually doing the creating, we are the ones taking the drugs, drinking the alcohol, overeating and refraining from physical exercise, sleeping with anyone willing to engage in sex with us, and lying on the sofa complaining about not having a job.

After awhile, we begin to expect someone to rescue us from this nightmare that we've created in our lives. We frequently search frantically for one of society's prize rehabilitation programs to magically liberate us from our suffering. In our weaken state of consciousness, we even plea, beg, them to accept us into the magical kingdom where we'll be cured of our deleterious actions.

After we convince them to let us enter the program, after our pain is diminished, after our self-confidence improves, and after we're told that we have overcome our dysfunctional behavior, we happily leave the program shouting profusely praise for having found the solution to our problems.  Unfortunately, this feeling of freedom will only last for a few days, weeks, or months before we return to the victim behavior that caused us the pain in the first place. 

Meanwhile, the truth about us resides with us We have the power to stop thinking and acting like victims. We have the power to eat healthy foods, exercise our bodies and minds, and obtain the knowledge to accomplish our goals in this world.

We are powerful whenever we recognize we are the creator of everything in our lives. This is the epiphany of enlightenment.